Phenotypic analyses of mouse embryos with ubiquitous expression of Oct4: Effects on mid-hindbrain patterning and gene expression

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 180-190

  Ramos Mejía, Verónica ^a   Escalante Alcalde, Diana ^a,b   Kunath, Tilo ^c,d   Ramírez, Laura ^a   Gertsenstein, Marina ^c   Nagy, Andras ^c   Lomelí, Hilda ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Fgf8; MHB; Mouse; Oct4; Organizer; Pax2

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; UP-REGULATION;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 11244324373     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20211     Document Type: Article

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